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SUMMARY:VITA Program: Free Tax Preparation
DESCRIPTION:Vermont Law and Graduate School is once again hosting a Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) site. \n\n\n\nVolunteers will prepare and electronically file federal and state tax returns\, free of charge\, for qualifying low-to-moderate income and elderly taxpayers whose family income in 2025 was $69\,000 or less. \n\n\n\nFilings will be done by appointment only and can be scheduled by calling 802-831-1363. Participants will be asked to show proof of identity per IRS regulations. A self-service filing station—complete with a laptop and necessary software—will also be available by appointment. \n\n\n\nNote: IRS regulations require verification of all taxpayers’ identities. Those participating in these tax preparation services (and their spouse\, if filing a joint return) will be asked to show proof of identity (e.g.\, driver’s license\, employer ID\, school ID\, birth certificate\, military ID\, or passport). It is also necessary to show a social security card\, an ITIN card or letter\, or an SSA letter for each individual who will be listed on the return. Taxpayers who cannot substantiate their identity will be asked to seek professional tax assistance elsewhere.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/vita-program-free-tax-preparation-4
LOCATION:By Appointment Only
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,VLS Events
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SUMMARY:VITA Program: Free Tax Preparation
DESCRIPTION:Vermont Law and Graduate School is once again hosting a Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) site. \n\n\n\nVolunteers will prepare and electronically file federal and state tax returns\, free of charge\, for qualifying low-to-moderate income and elderly taxpayers whose family income in 2025 was $69\,000 or less. \n\n\n\nFilings will be done by appointment only and can be scheduled by calling 802-831-1363. Participants will be asked to show proof of identity per IRS regulations. A self-service filing station—complete with a laptop and necessary software—will also be available by appointment. \n\n\n\nNote: IRS regulations require verification of all taxpayers’ identities. Those participating in these tax preparation services (and their spouse\, if filing a joint return) will be asked to show proof of identity (e.g.\, driver’s license\, employer ID\, school ID\, birth certificate\, military ID\, or passport). It is also necessary to show a social security card\, an ITIN card or letter\, or an SSA letter for each individual who will be listed on the return. Taxpayers who cannot substantiate their identity will be asked to seek professional tax assistance elsewhere.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/vita-program-free-tax-preparation-3
LOCATION:By Appointment Only
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,VLS Events
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SUMMARY:VITA Program: Free Tax Preparation
DESCRIPTION:Vermont Law and Graduate School is once again hosting a Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) site. \n\n\n\nVolunteers will prepare and electronically file federal and state tax returns\, free of charge\, for qualifying low-to-moderate income and elderly taxpayers whose family income in 2025 was $69\,000 or less. \n\n\n\nFilings will be done by appointment only and can be scheduled by calling 802-831-1363. Participants will be asked to show proof of identity per IRS regulations. A self-service filing station—complete with a laptop and necessary software—will also be available by appointment. \n\n\n\nNote: IRS regulations require verification of all taxpayers’ identities. Those participating in these tax preparation services (and their spouse\, if filing a joint return) will be asked to show proof of identity (e.g.\, driver’s license\, employer ID\, school ID\, birth certificate\, military ID\, or passport). It is also necessary to show a social security card\, an ITIN card or letter\, or an SSA letter for each individual who will be listed on the return. Taxpayers who cannot substantiate their identity will be asked to seek professional tax assistance elsewhere.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/vita-program-free-tax-preparation-2
LOCATION:By Appointment Only
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,VLS Events
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SUMMARY:VITA Program: Free Tax Preparation
DESCRIPTION:Vermont Law and Graduate School is once again hosting a Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) site. \n\n\n\nVolunteers will prepare and electronically file federal and state tax returns\, free of charge\, for qualifying low-to-moderate income and elderly taxpayers whose family income in 2025 was $69\,000 or less. \n\n\n\nFilings will be done by appointment only and can be scheduled by calling 802-831-1363. Participants will be asked to show proof of identity per IRS regulations. A self-service filing station—complete with a laptop and necessary software—will also be available by appointment. \n\n\n\nNote: IRS regulations require verification of all taxpayers’ identities. Those participating in these tax preparation services (and their spouse\, if filing a joint return) will be asked to show proof of identity (e.g.\, driver’s license\, employer ID\, school ID\, birth certificate\, military ID\, or passport). It is also necessary to show a social security card\, an ITIN card or letter\, or an SSA letter for each individual who will be listed on the return. Taxpayers who cannot substantiate their identity will be asked to seek professional tax assistance elsewhere.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/vita-program-free-tax-preparation
LOCATION:By Appointment Only
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,VLS Events
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SUMMARY:Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Vermont Law and Graduate School presents a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration: “Unarmed Truth\, Audacious Faith and the Presence of Justice.” \n\n\n\nCarolyn Finney\, PhD—scholar and artist-in-residence at Middlebury College—will be this year’s guest speaker. \n\n\n\nThe event will be held both in person and livestreamed virtually.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-celebration-2
LOCATION:Chase Community Center\, 164 Chelsea St.\, South Royalton\, VT\, 05068
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Livestream Calendar,VLS Events
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SUMMARY:2025 Community Thanksgiving Dinner
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate Thanksgiving with our community! This free dinner is sponsored by the South Royalton/Royalton community\, businesses\, churches\, Vermont Law and Graduate School (VLGS)\, the Royalton and Area Lions Club\, and residents of surrounding towns. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nIf you would like to attend or have a meal delivered\, please contact:  \n\n\n\nCourtney Potter (VLGS) at communitythanksgiving@vermontlaw.edu or 802-831-1238; or Carol Greene (Royalton and Area Lions Club) at 802-291-3750 \n\n\n\nFood donations (chocolate\, apple\, and pumpkin pies; other desserts) will be accepted from November 24-26 in Chase Community Center on the VLGS campus. Monetary donations are gratefully accepted and can be dropped off at VLGS with Courtney Potter (Debevoise Hall\, 3rd Floor). Please make checks payable to Vermont Law and Graduate School. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nLearn More
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/2025-community-thanksgiving-dinner
LOCATION:Chase Community Center\, 164 Chelsea St.\, South Royalton\, VT\, 05068
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,VLS Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251106T124500
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SUMMARY:"What We Can Do: A Climate Optimist’s Guide to Sustainable Living" Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an engaging book talk with Charlie Sellars\, director of sustainability at Microsoft and author of the #1 best-selling climate book\, “What We Can Do: A Climate Optimist’s Guide to Sustainable Living.” \n\n\n\nIn this empowering and practical guide\, Sellars offers a data-driven framework to help readers embrace sustainability in their personal\, professional\, and political lives. With an optimistic perspective\, “What We Can Do” reminds us that each of us has more power than we realize to create a meaningful difference in the fight against climate change. \n\n\n\nThis event is hosted by the Business Law Society\, the Environmental Law Society\, the Energy Law Society\, the Environmental Law Center\, and Offices for Alumni Relations and Development. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPlanning to attend in person? Please register via the button below. Joining virtually? Access the presentation on the day of the event via this link.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/what-we-can-do-a-climate-optimists-guide-to-sustainable-living-book-talk
LOCATION:Vermont Law and Graduate School\, 164 Chelsea St.\, South Royalton\, VT\, 05068
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Livestream Calendar,VLS Events
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SUMMARY:Vermont Law Review Presents: "Free Speech on Trial: Resisting Censorship in 2025"
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of its 50th volume\, Vermont Law Review proudly presents its annual symposium\, “Free Speech on Trial: Resisting Censorship in 2025.” \n\n\n\nThis dynamic event will feature four panels examining pressing First Amendment issues—executive power and academic freedom in contemporary governance—the Pico v. Island Trees case and book banning in schools across the United States\, a comparative panel with African artistic freedom of expression\, and the rapidly evolving intersection of artificial intelligence and free speech in democratic societies. \n\n\n\nThe symposium is free and open to the public. Both in-person and livestream attendance options are available. The livestream links will be shared on this page prior to the event. \n\n\n\nTo view the full agenda\, please see below. \n\n\n\nYou can access the livestream via the following links: \n\n\n\nFriday\, October 3 | 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. ET \n\n\n\nSaturday\, October 4 | 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ET \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAGENDA:  \n\n\n\nFriday\, October 3 \n\n\n\n3:30 p.m. | Opening Remarks \n\n\n\n\nKatie Scott JD’26\, Symposium Editor\, Vermont Law Review\n\n\n\nIlinca Johnson JD’26\, Symposium Editor\, Vermont Law Review\n\n\n\nKeynote Address: Rod Smolla\, Professor of Law\, Vermont Law and Graduate School\n\n\n\n\n4 p.m. | Break \n\n\n\n4:05 p.m. | Panel One\, “Executive Power and Academic Freedom”  \n\n\n\n\nModerator: Siu Tip Lam\, Interim Vice President for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion\, Vermont Law and Graduate School\n\n\n\nMichael Hurley\, Government Affairs Counsel\, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)\n\n\n\nRyan Kane JD’13\, Deputy Solicitor General\, Vermont Attorney General’s Office \n\n\n\nSam Abel-Palmer\, Executive Director\, Legal Services Vermont\n\n\n\nApratim Vidyarthi\, Litigation Associate\, Gibson\, Dunn & Crutcher\n\n\n\n\n5:20 p.m. | Break \n\n\n\n5:30 p.m. | Panel Two\, “Pico v. Island and Book Bans” \n\n\n\n\nModerator: Anna Connolly\, Associate Professor of Law\, Vermont Law and Graduate School\n\n\n\nRhiannon Hamam\, Supervising Attorney\, Mithoff Pro Bono Program\, University of Texas School of Law\, and Co-host\, 5-4 Podcast\n\n\n\nMichael Liroff\, Creator and Co-host\, 5-4 Podcast\n\n\n\n\n6:45 p.m. | Social Hour \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSaturday\, October 4 \n\n\n\n8:30 a.m. | Check-in and Breakfast  \n\n\n\n9 a.m. | Opening Remarks  \n\n\n\n\nIlinca Johnson JD’26\, Symposium Editor\, Vermont Law Review\n\n\n\n\n9:05 a.m. | Panel Three\, “African Artistic Freedom and Censorship”  \n\n\n\n\nModerator: Emily Gould\, Lawyer\, Mediator\, and Executive Coach\n\n\n\nSam Brakarsh\, Chair\, Pan-African Network on Artistic Freedom Summit \n\n\n\nAdaobi Egboka\, Director\, Africa Initiative\, Human Rights and Access to Justice Program\, Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice\n\n\n\nMuleta Kapatiso\, Activist\, Lawyer\, and Development Practitioner\n\n\n\nLisa Sidambe\, Independent Human Rights and Development Consultant\n\n\n\n\n10:20 a.m. | Break  \n\n\n\n10:25 a.m. | Panel Four\, “AI and the First Amendment”  \n\n\n\n\nModerator: Benjamin Varadi\, Associate Professor of Law\, Vermont Law and Graduate School\n\n\n\nEsha Bhandari\, Deputy Director\, ACLU Speech\, Privacy\, and Technology Project\n\n\n\nJohn Coleman\, Legislative Counsel\, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) \n\n\n\nIlan Kogan\, Associate\, Litigation\, Wachtell\, Lipton\, Rosen & Katz\n\n\n\n\n11:45 a.m. | Closing Remarks \n\n\n\n\nKatie Scott JD’26\, Symposium Editor\, Vermont Law Review\n\n\n\nIlinca Johnson JD’26\, Symposium Editor\, Vermont Law Review
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/vermont-law-review-presents-free-speech-on-trial-resisting-censorship-in-2025
LOCATION:Chase Community Center\, 164 Chelsea St.\, South Royalton\, VT\, 05068
CATEGORIES:Academic Fall – Online Learning,Academic Fall – Residential,Events in South Royalton,Livestream Calendar,Student Events,VLS Events
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SUMMARY:Constitution Day 2025: "Landmark Cases in American Constitutional Law"
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of the day that the United States Constitution was adopted\, the Vermont Bar Association (VBA) and Vermont Law and Graduate School (VLGS) will host a panel presentation focused on “Landmark Cases in American Constitutional Law.” \n\n\n\nPanelists include:  \n\n\n\n\nVermont Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Reiber\n\n\n\nVermont Superior Court Judge Timothy Tomasi\n\n\n\nVermont Superior Court Judge Daniel Richardson JD’03\n\n\n\nVermont Superior Court Judge Bonnie Badgewick\n\n\n\nVLGS Professor Peter Teachout\n\n\n\nIncoming VBA President Jordana Levine JD’04 (Moderator)\n\n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public\, and all in-person attendees will receive a pocket Constitution. There will be an opportunity to ask questions of panelists following the presentation. \n\n\n\nIf you are unable to join us in person\, the livestream can be accessed by clicking here.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/constitution-day-2025-landmark-cases-in-american-constitutional-law
LOCATION:Chase Community Center\, 164 Chelsea St.\, South Royalton\, VT\, 05068
CATEGORIES:Academic Fall – Residential,Events in South Royalton,Livestream Calendar,VLS Events
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SUMMARY:2025 New England Legal Writing Conference
DESCRIPTION:Vermont Law and Graduate School (VLGS) looks forward to hosting professors from near and far for the the 2025 New England Legal Writing Conference. This year’s theme is “Legal Writing: 2035.” \n\n\n\nParticipants will be asked to imagine the promise—and peril—of the future of legal writing. What will legal writing look like ten years from now? How should legal writing professors pivot to address rapidly evolving developments in technology and society? Which core principles of legal writing should we preserve–and which should we abandon?  \n\n\n\nFor conference details\, including information on registration and hotel accommodations\, please click here. You can view the tentative schedule below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSCHEDULE: \n\n\n\n8:30 – 9:30 a.m. | Breakfast (Yates Common Room) \n\n\n\nSponsored by Bloomberg and Carolina Academic Press \n\n\n\n9:15 – 9:30 a.m. | Dean’s Welcome with Dean Beth McCormack (Yates Common Room) \n\n\n\n9:30 – 10:15 a.m. | Opening Plenary Address (Yates Common Room) \n\n\n\n\nModerator: Professor Greg Johnson\n\n\n\nLinda Anderson\, Stetson University College of Law: Legal Writing Reimagined: AI\, NextGen Bar\, and the New Writing Process—What Every Professor Needs to Know\n\n\n\n\n10:25 – 10:50 a.m. | Plenary Discussion Group (Yates Common Room) \n\n\n\n\nModerator: Professor Catherine Fregosi\n\n\n\nNicole Belbin\, Beth Cohen\, and Jessica Mahon Scoles\, Western New England School of Law: The Future of Legal Writing is Now: Everything\, Everywhere\, All at Once\n\n\n\n\n10:50 – 11 a.m. | Coffee Break (Yates Common Room) Sponsored by Aspen Publishing  \n\n\n\n11 – 11:50 a.m. | Concurrent Sessions \n\n\n\n\nMap Room\n\nModerator: Professor Michael Kovac\n\n\n\nAnna Elbroch\, Melissa Christensen\, Heather Ward\, Julia Pothen\, and Kelsey Klementowicz\, UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law: Mindful AI Integration: Designing Activities that Build Skills\, Not Shortcuts\n\n\n\nRachel Jay Smith\, University of Cincinnati College of Law: Chatbots as Tutors: Enhancing Legal Writing Education for the Future\n\n\n\n\n\nNina Thomas Classroom\n\nModerator: Professor Anna Connolly\n\n\n\nLiz Chen\, Brooklyn Law School: Rewarding Reflection\n\n\n\nKerry Fulham\, Brooklyn Law School: Beyond Anxiety: Incorporating Creative Exercises into the Legal Writing Classroom\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12 – 12:30 p.m. | Lunch (Yates Common Room) Sponsored by Thomson Reuters \n\n\n\n12:30 – 1:50 p.m. | Keynote Speakers (Yates Common Room) \n\n\n\n\nModerator: Professor Greg Johnson\n\n\n\nElizabeth Berenguer\, Stetson University College of Law; Lucy Jewel\, University of Tennessee Winston College of Law; and Teri McMurtry-Chubb\, University of Illinois Chicago School of Law: Gut Renovation: Using Critical and Comparative Rhetoric to Remodel How the Law Addresses Privilege and Power\n\n\n\n\n2 – 2:50 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions \n\n\n\n\nMap Room\n\nModerator: Professor Tenielle Fordyce-Ruff\n\n\n\nColin M. Black\, Suffolk University Law School: The Ghost-Writer in the Machine: When Must Lawyers Disclose AI Assistance in Legal Writing?\n\n\n\nSarah Cansler\, Campbell University\, Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law: Teaching Ethical Use of AI\n\n\n\n\n\nNina Thomas Classroom\n\nModerator: Professor Jessica Durkis-Stokes\n\n\n\nAnna Connolly\, Vermont Law and Graduate School\, Get Out of the Shallows: Break Up Legal Research and Writing\n\n\n\nStevie Leahy\, Suffolk University Law School: Fifty Classrooms\, One Future: Ground-Level Visions for Legal Writing in 2035\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2:50 – 3 p.m. | Coffee Break (Yates Common Room) Sponsored by LexisNexis  \n\n\n\n3 – 4:30 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions \n\n\n\n\nMap Room \n\nModerator: Professor Catherine Fregosi\n\n\n\nMarni Goldstein Caputo and Kathleen Luz\, Boston University School of Law: Professional Identity Formation in the Transactional Context: Not an Amorphous Concept\n\n\n\nLaura D’Amato and Claire Abely\, Boston University School of Law: A Transactional Simulation for a Changing Legal Education Landscape\n\n\n\nRebecca Chapman\, Northeastern University School of Law: Transforming and Expanding Legal Writing Instruction Through Clinical Work\n\n\n\n\n\nNina Thomas Classroom\n\nModerator: Professor Michael Kovac\n\n\n\nPatricia Winograd and Rebecca Delfino\, LMU Loyola Law School: A Look at the Future . . . From a First-Generation Perspective\n\n\n\nKrista Bordatto\, Campbell Law School: Incorporating Cross-Cultural Competency and Cultural Humility into the Legal Writing Classroom—Enhancing Advocacy and Global Understanding\n\n\n\nAfton Cavanaugh\, University of Baltimore School of Law: “We Were Raised in Crisis”: Teaching Legal Writing to a Generation Formed by Upheaval\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4:30 – 5 p.m. | Closing Reception (Yates Common Room)
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/2025-new-england-legal-writing-conference
LOCATION:Vermont Law and Graduate School\, 164 Chelsea St.\, South Royalton\, VT\, 05068
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton
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SUMMARY:Hot Topics | Climate in the Courtroom: Inside the Historic Held v. Montana Youth Climate Trial
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for the Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session will be presented by Dana Drugmand. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-16
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250729T130000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250619T182525Z
UID:10002697-1753790400-1753794000@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Hot Topics | Carbon Pricing: Issues and Challenges
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for the Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session\, “Carbon Pricing: Issues and Challenges\,” will be presented by David Talbot from École Nationale d’Administration Publique. \n\n\n\nThe presentation will cover the evolution of carbon markets and taxes worldwide. Its aim is to highlight the challenges and issues linked to carbon pricing and discuss the impact of the various policies and initiatives that have been implemented. In particular\, Talbot will present comparisons between the European carbon market and the Western Climate Initiative (California and Quebec). \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-15
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250724T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250724T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T072354
CREATED:20250619T182239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250619T182330Z
UID:10002700-1753358400-1753362000@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Hot Topics | Animal Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for the Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session\, “Animal Storytelling\,” will be presented by Stephanie Hanes\, environmental journalist and VLGS Animal Law Media Fellow. \n\n\n\nReporting and writing about non-human animals creates unique challenges for journalists. We can’t quote them. We can’t interview them. So how do we pick what stories to tell about them—and how do we adjust our work to ensure we are accurately and effectively communicating about our natural world? In this talk\, Hanes will discuss some of the pitfalls and potential of covering animals for mainstream media. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-14
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250722T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250722T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T072354
CREATED:20250619T181832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250715T125723Z
UID:10002696-1753185600-1753189200@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Hot Topics | Someone
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for the Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session will be presented by Kristen Stilt from Harvard Law School and a VLGS Distinguished Animal Law Summer Scholar. \n\n\n\nAn assumed division between human and nonhuman animals (and most of nature) has long been baked into most of Western culture and law. As effects of the Anthropocene bring humans and animals in closer and more frequent contact\, increasingly in emergency and catastrophic situations\, we are beginning to see more signs of awareness that humans and animals are not only ecologically but profoundly interdependent—and that each animal should not be categorized something\, but as someone. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-13
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250717T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250717T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T072354
CREATED:20250619T181611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250710T122705Z
UID:10002699-1752753600-1752757200@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Hot Topics | One Big Beautiful Bill and How it Will Disrupt the Clean Energy Transition
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for the Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session will be presented by Valerie Volcovici from Thomson Reuters and a VLGS Environmental Media Fellow. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-12
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250715T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250715T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T072354
CREATED:20250619T181105Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250619T181107Z
UID:10002695-1752580800-1752584400@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Hot Topics | Universal Ownership\, Systematic Stewardship: Whatever You Call It\, Where Do We Stand?
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for the Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session\, “Universal Ownership\, Systematic Stewardship: Whatever You Call It\, Where Do We Stand?”\, will be presented by Madison Condon from Boston University School of Law and the VLGS Distinguished Climate Law Summer Scholar. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-11
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250710T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250710T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T072354
CREATED:20250619T180727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250619T181213Z
UID:10002694-1752148800-1752152400@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Hot Topics | A Just Transition for Whom? Understanding the Opportunities and Limitations of a Just Energy Transition
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for the Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session\, “A Just Transition for Whom? Understanding the Opportunities and Limitations of a Just Energy Transition\,” will be presented by Mijin Cha from University of California Santa Cruz and the VLGS Distinguished Energy Law Summer Scholar. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-10
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250708T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250708T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T072354
CREATED:20250619T180426Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250619T181259Z
UID:10002693-1751976000-1751979600@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Hot Topics | Federal Environmental Law After Trump II
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for the Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session\, “Federal Environmental Law After Trump II” will be presented by Sean Donahue of Donahue\, Goldberg & Herzog\, and Robert Percival from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-9
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250627T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250629T235959
DTSTAMP:20260407T072354
CREATED:20250328T125942Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250522T125443Z
UID:10002674-1750982400-1751241599@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Alumni Weekend 2025
DESCRIPTION:Join other Swans in South Royalton\, Vermont\, this summer for an exciting weekend of events! All alumni are invited to attend\, regardless of your graduation year\, and we’ll have special celebrations for class years ending in 0s and 5s. \n\n\n\nFor more information\, including the registration link\, please click here. \n\n\n\nWe can’t wait to see you!
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/alumni-weekend-2025
LOCATION:VLGS Campus\, 164 Chelsea Street\, South Royalton\, Vermont\, 05068
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,VLS Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250626T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250626T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T072354
CREATED:20250619T180154Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250619T181337Z
UID:10002692-1750939200-1750942800@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Hot Topics | Challenges of Barcelona's Waste Tax in Light of the New European Requirement for Pay-As-You-Throw Systems
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for the Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session\, “Challenges of Barcelona’s Waste Tax in Light of the New European Requirement for Pay-As-You-Throw Systems\,” will be presented by Rodolfo Boix from Pompeu Fabra University. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-8
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250624T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250624T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T072354
CREATED:20250619T175834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250624T204529Z
UID:10002698-1750766400-1750770000@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Hot Topics | The Radioactive Shadow Workers of the Oil and Gas Industry: An Environmental Journalism Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for the Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session\, “The Radioactive Shadow Workers of the Oil and Gas Industry: An Environmental Journalism Perspective\,” will be presented by Julia Sklar\, science journalist and a VLGS Environmental Media Fellow. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-7
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250617T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250617T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T072354
CREATED:20250523T143734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250603T131704Z
UID:10002691-1750161600-1750165200@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Hot Topics | A Dog is a Chimp is a Mouse is a Rabbit? How Charismatic Species Shape Lab Animal Welfare Laws and Policies
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for this summer’s Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session\, “A Dog is a Chimp is a Mouse is a Rabbit? How Charismatic Species Shape Law Animal Welfare Laws and Policies\,” will be presented by Larry Carbone. \n\n\n\nIn this talk\, Carbone will explore the effect of using charismatic species (such as dogs\, primates\, and rabbits) to advance welfare reforms. Do new laws and practices crafted to accommodate interests of one species have a ripple effect that improves the lot of other animals? Or do special protections for one type of animal come at the expense of others? Carbone shows how both outcomes have occurred through the years\, and argues that activists should be mindful of arguments that elevate species we care about at the expense of those without a human constituency advocating for their interests. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-6
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250612T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250612T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T072354
CREATED:20250523T142124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250603T131514Z
UID:10002690-1749729600-1749733200@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Hot Topics | Our Plastic Problem and What the Law Can Do About It
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for this summer’s Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session\, “Our Plastic Problem and What the Law Can Do About It\,” will be presented by Sarah Morath from Wake Forest Law. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-5
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250610T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250610T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T072354
CREATED:20250523T141041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250603T130755Z
UID:10002689-1749556800-1749560400@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Hot Topics | Access to Beaches and Other Public Lands: Past\, Present\, and Future
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for this summer’s Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session\, “Access to Beaches and Other Public Lands: Past\, Present\, and Future\,” will be presented by Josh Eagle from the University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-4
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250605T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250605T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T072354
CREATED:20250523T140520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250603T130822Z
UID:10002688-1749124800-1749128400@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Hot Topics | Sustaining Environmental Justice
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for this summer’s Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session\, “Sustaining Environmental Justice\,” will be presented by Sharmila Murthy from Northeastern University School of Law. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-3
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250603T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250603T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T072354
CREATED:20250523T135637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250602T200305Z
UID:10002687-1748952000-1748955600@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Hot Topics | Toxic Sewage Sludge: How the Biosolid Fertilizer Industry is Poisoning Farm Animals
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for this summer’s Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session\, “Toxic Sewage Sludge: How the Biosolid Fertilizer Industry is Poisoning Farm Animals\,” will be presented by Marin Scotten\, VLGS Animal Law Media Fellow. \n\n\n\nUsing human biosolids\, also known as sewage sludge\, as farmland fertilizer has been hailed as a climate-friendly and efficient way to fertilize crops and dispose of waste. But a growing body of research now suggests sewage sludge application—which is largely unregulated and controlled by just a handful of companies—is contaminating food and water with PFAS\, poisoning farm animals and creating major public health risks. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-2
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250529T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250529T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T072354
CREATED:20250522T130731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250523T135758Z
UID:10002686-1748520000-1748523600@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Hot Topics | Advancing Environmental Justice in a Chaotic Time
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for this summer’s Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session\, “Advancing Environmental Justice in a Chaotic Time\,” will be presented by Marianne Engelman-Lado from New York University School of Law. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-1
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,VLS Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250516T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250516T163000
DTSTAMP:20260407T072354
CREATED:20250507T163938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250515T112705Z
UID:10002682-1747409400-1747413000@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Commencement 2025: Honorary Degree Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Julia Olson\, co-executive director and chief legal counsel for Our Children’s Trust\, will present\, “Children’s Climate Rights: Foundation of Democracy.” \n\n\n\nOlson founded Our Children’s Trust in 2010 to empower young people to secure their climate rights\, protect their futures\, and save our planet. In August 2023\, they made history with Held v. State of Montana\, the first children’s constitutional climate trial resulting in a landmark win for youth. In June 2024\, with Navahine v. Hawai‘i Department of Transportation\, Our Children’s Trust achieved the first settlement agreement of a youth-led constitutional climate case directed at decarbonizing transportation.  \n\n\n\nToday\, Olson directs the organization’s cutting-edge legal strategy and has served as lead counsel on the pathbreaking federal cases\, Juliana v. United States and Genesis v. EPA. Olson has received numerous awards\, including the Kerry Rydberg Award for Environmental Activism (2017)\, Rose-Walters Prize for Global Activism (2018)\, Katharine & George Alexander Law Prize (2022)\, and Berkeley Law’s Environmental Leadership Award (2024). In 2023\, TIME100 Climate called her one of the world’s most influential leaders driving climate action. Olson received her JD from University of California College of the Law\, San Francisco\, and her BA from University of Colorado. \n\n\n\nYou can also tune into the livestream by clicking here. \n\n\n\nWe look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/commencement-2025-honorary-degree-lecture
LOCATION:Oakes Hall\, Room 012\, 164 Chelsea Street\, South Royalton\, Vermont\, 05068\, United States
CATEGORIES:Commencement,Events in South Royalton,Livestream Calendar,VLS Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250425T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250425T143000
DTSTAMP:20260407T072354
CREATED:20250319T150906Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250425T103816Z
UID:10002671-1745569800-1745591400@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Veterans Advocate Training Program
DESCRIPTION:The South Royalton Legal Clinic’s Veterans Legal Assistance Project\, with the generous support of the Thomas M. French Veterans Advocacy Fund\, is honored to provide this introductory continuing legal education (CLE) program focused on preparing attorneys and appointed representatives to advocate for veterans. \n\n\n\nAttorneys and other advocates must be accredited to practice before the VA. Within 12 months of accreditation\, attorneys and other advocates are required to complete three hours of qualifying CLE credits. This program is offered to satisfy that requirement. It is also an excellent primer for any attorney considering representing veterans before the VA. \n\n\n\nThis program—which is eligible for up to four Vermont CLE credits—will provide an introduction to advocating for veterans before the VA\, a review of the VA benefits appeals process\, and an update on current trends in veterans advocacy. New this year\, we are offering an extra session on VA compensation claims that will highlight initiation\, review\, evidence development\, and decisions. This session is highly recommended for any new-to-VA-law practitioner or advocate. \n\n\n\nAttorneys and other advocates who become accredited will be listed on a national VA list\, and are entitled to represent veterans in their initial claims for VA benefits on a pro bono basis\, and on VA benefits appeals for attorney’s fees. \n\n\n\nThe session is being offered free of charge to attorneys and appointed representatives in exchange for their commitment to assist at least one pro bono VA benefits client in the year following the program. \n\n\n\nPlease register in advance by clicking here or emailing communications@vermontlaw.edu. \n\n\n\nSCHEDULE:8 a.m. In-Person Registration Opens \n\n\n\n8:30 a.m. VA Benefits: Nuts and BoltsDon Hayes JD’10\, South Royalton Legal Clinic\, VLGS \n\n\n\n9:30 a.m. Working Claims at the RO: Evidence Development and AppealsTim Mercer\, Esq.\, The Bluestein Group \n\n\n\n10:30 a.m. Break \n\n\n\n11 a.m. Obtaining a Character of Service Determination: Review of New StandardsAndrew Thibault JD’22\, The Bluestein Group \n\n\n\n12 p.m. Remarks from Thomas French \n\n\n\n12:10 p.m. Practitioner Q&A \n\n\n\n12:30 p.m. Lunch \n\n\n\n1 p.m. Beyond the RO: Appellate Process from CAVC to the Supreme CourtDavid Giza\, Esq.\, Chisholm Chisholm & Kilpatrick LTD
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/veterans-advocate-training-program
LOCATION:Chase Community Center\, 164 Chelsea St.\, South Royalton\, VT\, 05068
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250410T170000
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SUMMARY:20th Annual Norman Williams Distinguished Lecture in Land Use Planning and the Law: Navigating an Energy Transition
DESCRIPTION:The Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law and Graduate School invites you to hear from Dr. Sarah Mills\, director for the Center for EmPowering Communities at the University of Michigan’s Graham Sustainability Institute. \n\n\n\nThe U.S. has only just begun to see the rapid expansion of renewable energy on our landscapes. Technological advancements and reductions in costs for renewable energy have energy models showing that wind and solar may impact as much as 15% of the continental U.S. land area by 2050. The lion’s share of the energy infrastructure that has already been built—and will need to be built—for this energy transformation is sited in rural places.  \n\n\n\nIn this talk\, Dr. Mills will dig into how this infrastructure impacts rural residents and local governments. She will also discuss how a web of state policy choices—from siting/zoning authority to property tax policy to utility policy—shape the impacts that renewable infrastructure has on rural communities and the ability to deploy renewables with community goals in mind. \n\n\n\nThe livestream can be accessed via the button below or by clicking here.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/20th-annual-norman-williams-distinguished-lecture-in-land-use-planning-and-the-law-navigating-an-energy-transition
LOCATION:Oakes Hall\, Room 007\, 164 Chelsea Street\, South Royalton\, Vermont\, 05068
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Livestream Calendar,VLS Events
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